Was not expecting an update on Memorial Day. This is indeed pleasant news.
“Was not expecting an update on Memorial Day.”
Those performance incentives on the contracts pay for a lot of overtime...
Seriously though, some of the crews out in rural areas will probably put in a lot of overtime, just to kill time, because there is nothing to do in camp.
Just shave your head and save your money.
Even the briefing slide makers at HQ are getting in on the act. Law Enforcement never sleeps.
Just noticed something significant in this week’s Border Wall Update.
74 miles moved from pre-construction, to the under construction category, from the week before.
That is a really big jump by historical standards, and nothing I saw in the press explains all that.
The Government seem to have stopped issuing press releases about contract awards and groundbreakings this month - but they seem to be occurring even faster than before. It also looks like contractors have gotten the word to not publicize their awards or groundbreakings. This massive swell is occurring under the radar of the public and press (focused on coronavirus).
Judging by these reported numbers (and knowing that the largest amount of money ever available for Border Wall contracting, has now been on account long enough for the contracting process to make awards), it appears that an unprecedented tsunami is building - a real sea change in the scale of the effort.
I did see last week (May 19) that Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) tweeted:
“The first panels were installed yesterday on a 25-mile new border wall system project in Naco and Douglas, AZ.”
But it would seem that a total of 49 more miles started work somewhere else last week as well, to add up to 74 new miles under construction. With no fanfare at all. I checked the official sites and searched the news every day.
Lately, weekly developments have been on the order of what were annual developments, during 2017 and 2018.
This is going to be epic!